Sometimes dreams can come true. And storks, too, can sometimes make mistakes in their deliveries, though not, of course, with Obelix's menhirs. Fate has our inseparable heroes becoming the adoptive fathers of a baby, and Asterix and Obelix start probing public opinion at Roman outposts, aiming to find the real parents of their unexpected visitor. The ruthless Brutus wants this child at all costs and won't hesitate to burn all of Gaul to get it. The "nannies" fail in their mission, and the baby seems to love trees and starts to resemble Obelix. In this story, Caesar neither came, saw, nor knows anything, but the gods love both the thief and the householder. Such a feast at the end of the story has never been seen before, and Obelix will continue to wonder, amidst roasted wild boars, about the role of storks. No matter how much Asterix tries to explain it to him with bees and flowers with pollen...